Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some members questioned whether the council should even take a stand on such a highly politicized issue...
...corporate America just can't break its addiction to taxpayer-financed perks, whether they contribute to good business or not. I will believe that American corporations are serious about their free-market rhetoric on the same day they refuse to take their market distorting T and E deductions...
...time, companies could deduct T and E expenses for any occasion "conducive to a business discussion," whether or not any such discussion took place...
...this Byzantine maneuvering was but a prelude to Wilder's breakthrough: his nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1985. Virtually no leading white politicians wanted Wilder on the ticket; the issue was whether they would risk his wrath to keep him off. Wilder cemented a successful alliance with Baliles, the underdog for the gubernatorial nomination, because he was in the weakest position to resist a black running mate. "There were people in the Baliles campaign," Wilder recalled afterward, "who didn't want me on the ticket either...
Much will depend, of course, on whether, and how soon, Krenz delivers on his rhetoric of freedom. The conviction that they will be able to decide their future could indeed keep at home most East Germans who are now tempted to flee; it is difficult to see anything else that might. Until the opening of the Wall, however, Krenz's reformist inclinations had seemed ambiguous. For many years he had been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion...